One. This is how it begins. In this note, You are nine years old. It is night and there is a lot of darkness. You are on your bed sleeping. Your mind is empty. This is at the beginning of things before the mind developed a mind of its own. This is at an early […]
Relationship & Love Series: I Am In Pieces
Dear Michael, In my own case, I didn’t rush into this relationship. I’ve always been a cautious person, and right from my younger years, I knew how delicate relationships could be. I wasn’t even pressured to be in a relationship or actively searching for romance. But Love came my way, and I hopped on it […]
Relationship and Love Series: Blood In My Pee
‘So this is it, this is the end…..’, those were words I never ever thought my 20 month old boyfriend was gonna say to me, or better still, type to me. I mean, it wasn’t a perfect relationship, but I always felt all relationships weren’t perfect. With hot tears streaming down my face, many questions […]
Relationship & Love Series: Breakfast In Bed
I think that it is essential that I let you know that this isn’t an attempt to smear your name in the mud, neither is it a way to apportion blames, and I hope that if you do stumble on this, you would still think of me as a gorgeous smart blondie. I believe that […]
Relationship & Love Series : Our Lips Met In Disgust
Hey Michael, how are you? So, you asked me about my previous relationship. Well, I wouldn’t really call it a relationship. It was a situationship, and it lasted for just a month. I’m grateful it ended before it even started though, things would have gotten complicated if it didn’t. How did it start? What led me to […]
Relationship & Love Series: I Would Like Us To Take A Break
“I would like us to take a break. Reflect on our relationship so far, sort out our personal issues before we get back together.” This was what I said to my ex-boyfriend as we walked past Sports Complex on the afternoon of 9th July, 2019. I was breaking up with my boyfriend of 18 months. Well, at that time, I […]
The 21 Laws of Feminism
1. It is not about taking dominance over men; I am a man, why would I want to hate myself? Misandry is about hating men – yes, there is an English word for it and that word is not ‘feminism’. 2. Someone who hates men is not a feminist. People like that are misandrists. If however, they claim to […]
But I Wake Up In the Space Between Dawn and Morning…
On Tuesday, I wake up in the dead of the night and I can’t find you. My bed is empty, my sheets heavy with tears and my pillow crying from the absence of your head beside me. God, can you look me in the eyes and tell me he will return? Can you look me in the eyes and tell […]
22 Things
1. End SARS “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers 2. How do you kill someone you love? How do you leave someone you love? You do it the way Okonkwo killed Ikemefuna. This is the summary of my January till August. “As the man who […]
We Pick Up Broken Things…
And so we keep pulling and pulling, drawing and stretching this cord called life until it snaps. And in that moment when it snaps, there is no going back. You cannot call 911. You cannot call the police. You cannot call anybody because what is done is done and who is dead is dead. It […]